avatarbilbo
02-19-2006, 02:02 PM
Hi there,
I'm starting work on a new design of my photography site. I have been slowly learning CSS, but as it is now, I made the site using evil tables for non-tabular data... sorry!! Well, I did that for a few reasons. First, I wanted to get something working as a template to move forward with CSS. And second, I wanted to get some ideas as to how to best continue.
Well, here's the temp site (no working links now):
http://www.davidjcubberly.com/new/index.html
It's all w3 valid, so that shouldn't be a problem (I hope). Secondly, I've been racking my brain trying to decide how to go forward. The site will basically have sections of photo galleries (as you will see in the temp page) and some text sections. I feel this will best be done using CSS, but like I said I'm not ready for that yet. As for the photo galleries, I'm not sure what's best:
1. I could just make a full complete html page for each and every picture - I would be sure of getting exactly what I want, however that would leave me with over 100 html files and if something needs to be changed - ouch...
2. I could therefore make the outline as you see it in just one index html file and just put all the content into an iframe, but then that would mean using an iframe (which I've used with sucess before, but I'd like to avoid it for this project since I know iframes are a little taboo).
3. Using some sort of javascript or php to show the images when clicked on with the arrows, but that just doesn't seem clean enough...
4. Go full CSS. I guess that is really the answer, but my question is this: Would I be able to successfully create all of the outline design in a way that would allow for a single style sheet for altering everything on all html files in the future?
I hope all this makes sense! Any ideas/comments/help would be greatly appreciated! And besides all that, how does it look? okay?
Thanks so much!!
Dave
I'm starting work on a new design of my photography site. I have been slowly learning CSS, but as it is now, I made the site using evil tables for non-tabular data... sorry!! Well, I did that for a few reasons. First, I wanted to get something working as a template to move forward with CSS. And second, I wanted to get some ideas as to how to best continue.
Well, here's the temp site (no working links now):
http://www.davidjcubberly.com/new/index.html
It's all w3 valid, so that shouldn't be a problem (I hope). Secondly, I've been racking my brain trying to decide how to go forward. The site will basically have sections of photo galleries (as you will see in the temp page) and some text sections. I feel this will best be done using CSS, but like I said I'm not ready for that yet. As for the photo galleries, I'm not sure what's best:
1. I could just make a full complete html page for each and every picture - I would be sure of getting exactly what I want, however that would leave me with over 100 html files and if something needs to be changed - ouch...
2. I could therefore make the outline as you see it in just one index html file and just put all the content into an iframe, but then that would mean using an iframe (which I've used with sucess before, but I'd like to avoid it for this project since I know iframes are a little taboo).
3. Using some sort of javascript or php to show the images when clicked on with the arrows, but that just doesn't seem clean enough...
4. Go full CSS. I guess that is really the answer, but my question is this: Would I be able to successfully create all of the outline design in a way that would allow for a single style sheet for altering everything on all html files in the future?
I hope all this makes sense! Any ideas/comments/help would be greatly appreciated! And besides all that, how does it look? okay?
Thanks so much!!
Dave